''Barbus sperchiensis'' is a disputed species of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...

fish in the genus ''

Barbus ''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is the common barbel, first described as ''Cyprinus barbus'' and now named ''Barbus barbus''. ''Barbus'' is the namesake genus of the subfamily Ba ...

''. It is a freshwater fish endemic to the Spercheios river complex, Central Greece. It is sometimes included in '' B. cyclolepis''.

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* sperchiensis Cyprinid fish of Europe Endemic fauna of Greece Fish described in 1950 Taxa named by Alexander I. Stephanidis Spercheios Valley {{Barbus-stub